Brad Gessler

Brad Gessler is a Software Engineer and the Ruby on Rails Developer Experience Lead at Fly.io, based in San Francisco, United States. Prior to joining the cloud infrastructure provider in 2022, he co-founded the audience engagement platform Poll Everywhere in 2008 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure of over a decade, he successfully bootstrapped the business and scaled its core technology infrastructure to support millions of users and widespread adoption among Fortune 500 companies. He is an active contributor to the broader software development community, frequently speaking at major industry events like RailsConf and creating independent technical projects such as Beautiful Ruby and Legible News. Gessler currently focuses on optimizing cloud platform infrastructure and deployment tooling for developer ecosystems, alongside his ongoing activities as an angel investor in early-stage technology startups.